The need is even greater for folks like me who have family in other countries. Until we get two or three months of vacation per year (dream on!), flying is the only option.

They are falling out of the sky at an alarming rate, and putting yourself in a hurtling tube of steel going hundreds of miles an hour, thousands of feet in the air is one hell of a whopping misplace of faith and trust if you ask me.

Besides all that, they are a huge part of a system that sanctifies incredible waste and destruction for the sake of speed. I feel for those who have to fly from place to place to make a living, but to do it recreationally is like the most decadent thing to come to 'civilization' since porno.

If you must be an international tourist, charter a boat. If you can afford to fly to Europe, you can afford to do that. "But oh! the 'inconvenience' and the loss of 'time'" the more affluent might say. Well I think the destruction of whole species and our protecting layers of atmosphere might just take priority over the richer-mans sense of urgency to 'get there.'

Actually it doesn't matter much. It just means that they probably fired Secureop Nederland, the company that would grill every passenger leaving Amsterdam with very formal, pointed questions. Holland's a relaxed country, but they can be pretty formal sometimes. What with their reputation as a pot paradise, and Schiphol having hundreds of millions of passengers every year--going in some cases to places the US won't allow you to (Iran, Albania, Algeria, Kazakhstan, Cuba) and places with real severe penalties for any drugs (Indonesia, their former colony, Singapore, Malaysia, UAE, Saudi Arabia)--in many cases it's an acceptable measure. Most "drug tourists" going to Amsterdam aren't smugglers or "mules". For those people, there are ways around the scan system. You could mail the contraband to a friend's address; you could check your baggage and try to brave Customs on the other side. You could also bribe the police in your home country. But few hemp smugglers run thru Schiphol--the big runs are always through sophisticated international traffickers that study the routes and improvise their transit routes, changing from month to month.

They got real, real upset about the "mules", who swallow drugs and later excrete them. Someone tried to ply a 2-year old baby with cocaine-filled condoms. The condom burst on the plane, and the child had a heart attack immediately and died. THAT drew a lot of attention.

Someone did ask on another post whether the body scanners can detect grass. Yes, it can; and a small number of airports in the US use them. But the info's out now, so maybe that's good--we can spare some of the "little guys" by giving them the advance notice.

Visitors to the freewheeling Dutch city better be prepared to bare all.

Amsterdam's Schiphol airport has become the first in the world to deploy a new "see-through" security system that allows screeners to view the shape of the traveler’s body beneath their clothes. The system is designed to detect weapons and explosives hidden under clothing.

Numerous airports have tested the system, but this is the first permanent installation of the security devices. Schiphol officials are making the body scanners optional, allowing passengers to submit to the 3-scond scans in lieu of waiting in long security lines or being frisked by security personnel.

The Canadian government is already applying every ounce of persuasion it can amongst US legislators to extend the US deadline for Canadian citizens to acquire the passports that the US will require of them next year.

They wouldn't be bending over backwards with a half-twist to do this if they haven't already become worried about the present decline in US tourism to Canada. Future border hassles by amateur STASI wannabes are bound to cause the kind of irritation on both sides of the border that cannot help but negatively affect the livlihood of industries dependent upon unobstructed border passage...like tourism.

Keep it up, and that tourism will be lessened even more. As someone who has been crossing the border for 31 years, entirely for pleasure, I might just decide the 8 hour plane trip to Europe is worth avoiding such nonsense.

It seems to me it is just another part of the campaign to marginalize marijuana consumers in every conceivable way. The worst case of this persecution to me are the states that will charge you with driving under the influence if you test positive on a drug test. Several states have passed this law. That means EVERY cannabis consumer is subject to losing their driving priviledges at any time, since, as we all know, the ¨drug tests¨ do not measure intoxication, but detect trace metabolites that linger in the body up to a month.

Meanwhile, back in the Great White North:

...next to the gum and behind his car keys.

Now his name will forever be associated with his bust in Florida. Something that still follows Jennifer Capriati around...and a state whose citizens would be most likely in need of the beneficial herb. A gram! and it makes the news...sicko world...looking forward to Moore's new movie coming to a theatre near you.

Then, maybe a loophole statement will have to be read to arrivals at Customs and signed. And remember how super-overcrowded the Arrivals are, and how few Customs usually staff the cubicles. Translation: Waiting (detention) room, maybe 5, 6 hours.

Welcome to the USA. I light my lamp beside the golden door.

we do what we're told, we do what we're told, we do what we're told, told to do.

ONE GOAL ONE VOICE ONE WAR ONE TRUTH

Maybe not.

Maybe that's why they can't put out the fires in the first place.

Let's put all of our manpower towards eliminating cannabis a gram at a time and who cares if our whole F&(K!NG state is on fire?

I'm sure Jose Melendez is safe now that David Faustino has been stopped in his tracks, that is unless the wildfires that threaten thousands of homes are headed his way.

Geez, the home state of Rush L. and Jeb Bush (and his F'd up family) has finally lost their collective minds.

Now, what with the Idiot Act, and the ressurected SS Gestapo-"Vor der Vaderland!" 'Homeland Security' the borders have closed to free traffick. And as this article reveals, the 'discretionary powers' of the border cops has been enhanced and magnified by these (actually treasonous) acts against civil, and inalienable rights.

-0-

THE WAY OUT IS THE WAY IN...

Rosie Sounds Off On WTC Demolition & Destruction Of Crime Scene: http://prisonplanet.com/articles/may2007/140507rosiesoundsoff.htm

They're speaking about 9/11 -- every month: http://www.journaltimes.com/articles/2007/05/12/local/22009710.txt

May 11th Day of Action Forum/Pics: http://truthaction.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2038#2038

Claim: Silverstein Warned Not To Come To Work On 9/11: http://prisonplanet.com/articles/may2007/140507silversteinwarned.htm

New Footage Re-Ignites BBC Building 7 Controversy: http://infowars.com/articles/sept11/wtc_7_new_footage_reignites_controversy.htm

Debunker Buster: http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=2007051395241864

DAVID RAY GRIFFIN at PSU Mon May 21st “DEBUNKING 9/11 DEBUNKING”: http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/03/356811.shtml

9/11 Mysteries (Full Length, High Quality): http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6708190071483512003

Reichstag 9/11 promo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfM0zV0hKiM

Hmmm... so, let me see... Okay, foreigners aren't protected by the 1st Amendment. Got that part, even though it's pretty ridiculous and Inquisition-styled.

American citizens--or resident aliens who've lived here a long time--can be harassed for stuff they wrote just because drugs are illegal. So a student writes a paper about taking ecstasy in a nightclub, and it's a real good piece. The professor encourages him/her to publish it, and someone does. So he/she's liable for explaining their experiences?

Nothing in this washes. Nothing. This isn't even law enforcement, it isn't drug interdiction. WHERE did they get to the point that they could screen people's written work to determine whether they are allowed into the country? I think they've gone too far--hell, common sense tells us they've gone too far.

#2. Everything you say, or ever have said will be used against you.

#3. You have the right to consult an attorney before speaking to the police and to have an attorney present during questioning now or in the future -if you can afford one.

#4. If you cannot afford an attorney, then you are obviously of inferior breeding, so you are guilty and have no need of one.

#5. If you decide to answer questions now without an attorney present you will still have the right to stop answering at any time until you can afford to talk to an attorney. Otherwise we have the right ot beat the crap out of you.

Nixon would have loved this, and Reagan would have finished restoring the old Japanesse internment camps like he tried to do for the hippies.

Papers please.

"What? You participated in Woodstock? Arrest that man!"

"It says here that you made anti-patriotic statements on a web blog...you are under arrest."

-A possible future news story-

"It was announced today in an almost unanimous vote in the house to disallow any new initiatives of the people, and a constitutional ammendment securing total power and authority to the Federal Government." When asked why, the president said, "We as the peoples elected government, see no reason to give the rabble...I mean 'the people' any more power than that which they have invested in us, their chosen superiors. It's a waste of the taxpayers money to continue to support and fund political initiatives which interfere with the smooth workings of the legislature -who by the very fact of their elective status represent the minds and hearts of the people."

A protest in DC was halted as the armored SWAT teams rounded up the crowd into police vans and hauled them away. It is not known to which Homeleand Security Holding Facility they were taken."

In related news, the last of the medical marijuana advocates who have been in hiding since Bush declared martial law, extending his presidency for an indefinite period, were shot as they tried to escape the police dragnet that spotted them hiding in the last few acres of Redwoods in Northern california today.

One reporter caught a dialogue between a wounded survivor of the assault, and the officer in charge;

"Please, can you give me somethjing for the pain?"

The officer answered, "You shoulda thought of that before you smoked marijuana you f_ckin hippy."

"And in other news, the price of gas went down today to a unprecedented low of $20 a gallon! Nows the time to fill up folks."

(for those who don't know for sure...that was sarcasm, it hasn't really happened...yet)

But some can be certified as a Law Enforcement Officer, or be a politician and steal drugs.

You can be Chairman of a committee for exploited children, and in the meantime send kinky emails to 16 yr old boys. (Mark Foley) He was allowed to resign with full benefits and attend a 30 day alcohol rehab; Hasert was able to hand over the ‘Speaker of the House’ gavel to Pelosi saying he knew nothing.

But exercise your right of speech to point something out, and you are not wanted.

I wonder if this spokesman for the Customs and Border Protection agency, feels the same way about Rush Limbaugh???